What Users Love About the App
“What I liked best is that once I was able to log in it was really easy to use. It was integrated well with my class, and it was clear what I needed to do and how to complete the tasks. It was a very useful tool used in my class as an online alternative to completing work. It’s very easy to use and simple to understand.”
“The absolute best part of this software is the ‘Help Me Solve’ and ‘Show Me An Example’ selection for every problem! This is a personal tutor for each tutor on-demand.”
“I have been using MyLab for the past 4 years and find the ease of assigning homework that will be graded and synced with Canvas to be invaluable. I can easily target questions that tie to the learning goal and assign them to students. It is also wonderful that they’ve added the option to purchase 18 week or 24-week access to MyLab for students.”
“They have similar questions features and students can check right away what they did incorrectly. It’s so easy to use and learn independently.”
“I Like that it has the e-text and the assessments, the answer key, power points, and even the teaching guide. I can also print out all materials I will need to teach.”
What Users Dislike About the App
“There is nothing useful at all about my lab if you wish to learn a subject. The formatting of questions is atrocious. The way answers are generated allows for random guessing and hinders learning as people easily learn to game the system. Do not consider using this if you want to keep yourself mentally sane as the problems are not even hard but if you <.1% off then it will mark it wrong leaving you to misunderstand why you got it wrong.”
“On your failed attempts at the activities it doesn’t give you good feedback, but also at many times doesn’t match up with the readings very well, and instead of teaching for deeper understanding of the material; it relies on unhelpful memorization tactics that leave the students stressed out on tests. The activities are extremely repetitive and frustrating and if make the tiniest mistakes it will grade you down. -10/10 I wouldn’t recommend this garbage learning program to anyone.”
“It is extremely difficult to navigate. You have to have the exact answer in the format they want or you get the whole question wrong. Don’t even get me started on when you needed to graph things.. IT WAS HORRIBLE. There were times when I knew I was right by the way I was taught, but according to this website, I was wrong. It was by far the worst part of my first semester of college. I didn’t have the best teacher either so that didn’t make it any better. I spent more hours crying over this website than I did actually learning. This website triggered my depression.”
“I dislike basically everything, homework and course never matched. The answering system is 1 dimensional, it cannot account for different CORRECT answers. If you don’t input their EXACT answer you get it wrong. Extremely frustrating to use as a student. The videos rarely help if not at all. The GUI is TERRIBLE. And the Skill LAB is useless, better off google searching how to do the problems than using the Help Me Solve This or Skill Lab.”
“I had a lot of trouble logging in, I couldn’t get a clear answer on how to fix it, or what I needed to do. It was very frustrating, I had to try many different things to get into my account at certain times. It made it hard to do what I needed to do and it caused an inconvenience.”
